1st Carey Response

Finney 1

Jill Finney

RWS 100

Mr. Werry

03 October 2014

Carey Response

            Carey’s overall argument seems to be stated in paragraph two of his article, “Twenty years ago, a series of high-profile Congressional hearings, Led by Senator Sam Nunn, revealed widespread fraud in the industry, and the resulting reforms almost wiped schools out. But they hung on and returned with a vengeance in the form of publicly traded giants like the University of Phoenix.” The main point is distinguishing between the positive and negatives of for profit schools. Carey’s main claims are outlined in paragraphs three, ten, and halfway through eleven. In order to support these claims Carey utilizes statistics, examples, and testimonies. After reading the text, there were several areas that were very persuasive to me. Carey caught my attention by weighing both non-profit schools and for profit schools against each other. By doing this a reader can easily see both sides of the coin, and I think that this was why his article was so persuasive.